Oh, another person who doesn't believe protest is effective!
Not coincidentally, another person who has 0% experience and 100% incorrect assumptions.
Hopefully your first taste of it increases your understanding!
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For shame.
have you ever considered asking questions in order to better understand another's perspective rather than attacking their character on your own assumptions? Seeking to understand another's perspective is seeking to expand one's own horizons. This is precisely the mind set that @ura-soul seeks to avoid because it so often leads peaceful protest into violence.
I do not entirely agree with his position but I do choose to respect it and engage in positive and useful dialogue. I believe peaceful protest is an expression of a groups will to change something they believe is wrong. The real challenge, which most often fails, is getting the other side to take a peaceful approach to seeking a solution to the disagreement. Open mindedness is a willingness to change one's own perspective and understanding. This is a rare and highly valuable commodity.
Protest can catalyse some level of change at times - other times it catalyses people being killed and military takeover. This meme summarises my position of it: